Somalia Targeted by the Colonial US - Anglo-French. Why?

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
There are many indications that a common mistake, made by many Somalis in their efforts to analyze the reasons of the long civil war and foreign involvement in the country´s crisis, is the limitation of the issue in the period of the last 30 – 31 years. Quite unfortunately, the truth lies elsewhere.

A few days ago, I did notice an interesting analysis in the Somali portal Mareeg (http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=6471&tirsan=3); I quote three excerpts:

1) "Why then has the US policy seemingly turned against Somalia"?

2) "A strong stable Somalia may not be in the interest of Ethiopia but it definitely is for America".

3) "Ethiopian Factor

Many Somalis believe that US targeting of Somalia has been inspired by the Ethiopian government's allegations that Somalia is being taken over by Islamic extremists. Such charges are clearly intended to advance Ethiopia's own objectives. Having gone to war with Somalia at least three times in as many decades, Ethiopia would like to see Somalia remain divided into small cantons that it can contain. Hence, Ethiopia's effort to convince the US government that Somalia is a danger to US interests in the region".

Comments

I will start from the last point; there is no doubt that Abyssinia (fallaciously re-baptized ´Ethiopia´) did play an evil role against Somalia; certainly, Abyssinia´s interests are in direct conflict with those of the US. But the story of the Somali – Abyssinian relations is longer than 2 millennia, in the same way the Egyptian – Somali relationship spans over 4 millennia.

In the Islamic times, and more particularly since the 13th century, the Somali – Abyssinian relationship shaped the History of the Horn of Africa area. But it has been overshadowed by the progressive arrival of the European colonial powers, notably Portugal, Italy, France and England, and to lesser extent Germany and Russia. America arrived last in the area.

On the other hand, there is no doubt that a strong Somalia fully corresponds to America´s interests in the Indian Ocean, the Bab al Mandeb straits area, and the Horn of Africa region. But we should never be surprised by an American decision making shaped against the interests of America itself; it occurred many times and in many different cases.

With the first question, we don´t apparently get any answer, but the importance lies always in the correct formulation of a question. And the question "Why then has the US policy seemingly turned against Somalia?" is truly the correct question that opens the discussion.

America is not one country.

Of course, the appearance is different as the country has one constitution, a bicameral system, a president and a vice-president. However, when it comes to the real centers of power that influence the American decision-making, the country appears divided into mainly two camps.

In fact, there are three Americas:

America No 1.

An Anti-Colonial, anti-religious but spiritual, secular America, the vision of the Founding Fathers, that reflected the ideas and the principles of the European Renaissance, and Enlightenment. This America is very limited, and does not influence the political and diplomatic developments. It became - in a way - an arsenal for brilliant conceptualizations that are never implemented; great words that serve filthy purposes of people who would have been totally rejected by the Founding Fathers had they been alive nowadays. Believed by some remote theoreticians and marginalized intellectuals, this Anti-Colonial America of the Enlightenment almost never justifies the political choices of other parts of the establishment.

America No 2.

An Anti-Colonial, Catholic America that identifies itself with a certain predilection for isolation, consultations with Latin America, Vatican and Italy, and rejects the basic choices of the American establishment of which it forms only a small part. It is a genuinely democratic and tolerant America that cares for the Third World, environmental issues, poverty eradication, social solidarity, and Welfare state, while fully understanding Social Entropy and the Limits of the Growth - as splendidly portrayed within publications of the Club of Rome. This anti-consumerist America is close to considerations expressed by Garet Garrett, who rejected the ´mechanical extension of the Mankind´ as predestined to doom - in his groundbreaking and majestic opus Ouroboros.

Materialism, Consumerism, Relativism, Evolutionism are all refuted by this socially potent but politically weak America that values spirituality. Typical expressions of this America were President Herbert Hoover (whose dream for an American society with human face vanished, when his enemies triggered the famous 1929 Great Crash), President Kennedy and his younger brothers Robert (assassinated), Reverend Martin Luther King, and more recently Senator John Tower (died in air crash).

America No 3.

A Colonial, materialist, consumerist, arrogant, pseudo-Christian, and viciously Freemasonic America - controlled by the European colonial capital (that moved mostly in the 19th century), which has always been viewed by the Anglo-French Freemasonic colonialism as a country - tool for global supremacy for their interests, at the time the European colonial empires of France and England have fallen and got decomposed.

This perverse and monstrous America of the corruption, the crime and the fanaticism is the best survival of Hitler's Nazi Germany and functioned - according to the prescriptions of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge - in order to prepare the imposition of a totalitarian system and inhuman control allover the world. This materialist, immoral and utterly evil America ´had´ to become hated by hundreds of millions of people allover the world in order to divert the focus from the real responsible for the political choices made and practices pursued by the various American administrations: the various European lobbies and establishments that help implement the policies and achieve the global targets of the Anglo-French Freemasonic circles.

This part of the American establishment was against Somalia, but as it can be understood from the aforementioned the choice was not theirs, but England's.

So, to proceed further, we should rephrase the question as follows:

"Why then has the British colonial policy turned against Somalia?"

The essence of the Anglo-French colonialism.

Very few Somali have correctly and completely perceived the following key points as regards the colonial era in Somalia:

1. Colonialism: Spiritual Genocide

The colonial powers did not act similarly against the colonized nations. Germans were absolutely brutal in Tanganyika, but the French, who were less brutal in Algeria, intended to make of the Algerians (and not only) pathetic simulacra of the French, considering impossible for an Algerian to live without French culture and language. In this example, among the colonized peoples of Tanganyika and Algeria, the former are ´slightly luckier´ because they preserved their identity in a better way. As long as a brutal colonial regime does not take the form of a physical genocide, the spiritual genocide (intended loss of identity, culture, religion, language and historical distinctiveness) is worse.

2. Germany and Italy: Colonialism only to Compete

Not all the colonial powers´ targets were the same; Germany and Italy came late in the colonial ´rally´, because they had not been instituted as independent states (Italy was incepted in 1860, and Germany was proclaimed in 1870). Both countries were closer to the earlier colonial model of Portugal and Spain, and cared mostly about the exploitation of natural resources and the ensuing trade. To lesser extent, they were involved in proselytism to various Christian denominations. In fact, for Germany and Italy, a significant part of their interest for colonial expansion was European balance of power, as England, France, Holland and Belgium (plus Portugal and Spain) were investing the major part of their colonial income in Europe, thus trying to enlarge their sphere of influence.

3. Colonialism: Anti-Islamic Hysteria

Contrarily to the earlier colonial expansion in America (West Indies), the British and the French expansion in India, Egypt, the Balkans, Northwestern Africa, Eastern Africa, and the Middle East (plus the Russian expansion in the Caucasus region and Central Asia – an event mostly incited by the Anglo-French) had a deep and cruel, Anti-Islamic character. Islam was targeted by the Freemasonic establishment of France and England in a multi-dimensional (cultural, academic, intellectual, religious, theological, philosophical, social, behavioural, economic, military and political) way.

The Anti-Islamic hysteria of the Western Colonial Freemasonic powers (England and France) proved indeed to be far worse than the Anti-Islamic hatred of the Catholic Crusaders who had left the Middle East 500 years before Napoleon arrived.

In fact, when the English attempted to progressively colonize India, their target was Islam. The world had reached a level of early globalization in the mid-16th century – under Islam. When in 1558, Suleyman the Magnificent reigned at Istanbul, Tahmasp I ruled in Esfahan, and Akbar rose to power in Delhi, one person could move from today´s Western Algeria to Myanmar by only crossing two borderlines, namely the Ottoman – Persian frontier and the Persian – Indian border. Through the trickery of fake enemies (they were not), they managed to arrange a fake double alliance (France with the Ottoman Empire, and England with Iran) in order to turn the two great Islamic empires against one another. To speed the process, the managed to incite Russia to expand to the south, which meant wars against the two Islamic empires that were located in Russia´s southern borders.

As the two Islamic empires were in control of the entire area of the Red Sea coast, Arabian Peninsula, Horn of Africa, and Eastern Africa coast, either in terms of territorial integrity or by means of substitutes and representatives of either the Sultan or the Shah, the French and English expansion in the area (the French in Egypt – 1798 / the English in Aden – 1838), and all the ensued developments until Somalia´s colonial division, had for the two colonial powers a clear Anti-Islamic target: the demolition of the Ottoman Caliphate and its replacement by colonial rule.

4. Anglo-French Freemasonic Colonialism: An Effort to alter the Local Identity and the Historical Distinctiveness

The Anglo-French Freemasonic colonialism is a genuine and multifaceted effort to monstrously alter the local identity and the historical distinctiveness of a nation, and to effectively obliterate or disintegrate all the social, behavioural, cultural, spiritual, religious, economic and political elements of national cohesion and diachronic integrity.

The method involves

a. lack of academic research, exploration, and conclusion as regards he nation in question

b. imposition of silence concerning studied parts of that nation´s past

c. attraction of the colonized nations´ elites to colonial countries´ universities that are depicted as more advanced but diffuse utterly forged concepts and dogmas

d. projection of colonial – alien for the colonized peoples – concepts, dogmas, frames and ideas on the colonized nations´ elites

e. imposition of elementary, general misconceptions and forged dogmas, Hellenism, Orientalism, Arabism, and Islamism on all the colonized nations´ elites

f. projection of a false identity (early 19th century Slavic and Albanian populations in Greece were ´instructed´ that they are ´Greeks´, Aramaeans of Mesopotamia were ´taught´ that they are ´Assyrians´, Egyptians were told they are Arabs, and so on)

g. eradication of all elements and testimonies proving anything opposite of the colonial dogmas

h. marginalization of all local or international scholars who would oppose the colonial dogmas, and

i. academic – intellectual disconnection between two and more colonized countries as regards their past (no Somali learnt Egyptian Hieroglyphics or Ancient Yemenite History and Literature, no Yemenite studied Pre-Islamic Iran, Achaemenidian Old Persian Cuneiform Scripture, Language and Literature, and no Egyptian studied Assyriology – to mention a few examples.

Having all this in mind, we can now identify what truly Colonialism is: above all, the colonial countries France and England intentionally averted or disrupted the Nation-building process at all levels, and more specifically at the level of National Historical Conscience.

The colonial establishment of France and England was successful – thus far – in keeping African and Asiatic nations far from the epicenter of the Nation-building process, which implies automatically cancellation of the National Historical Conscience. Quite contrarily, the national historical conscience has been well absorbed among the colonial countries themselves through the educational system, and the patterns and prototypes of the National Historical Conscience have been permanently reassessed and reproduced.

Somalia: A Threat for the Colonial, Freemasonic Anglo-French Establishment

Somalia and Egypt are the only countries that can relatively easily reach the level of National Historical Conscience, and achieve genuine Nation-building. This is due to their historical past, but when we study the recent past and the present, we realize that Egypt had been deeply plunged into the colonial scheme (since 1798), disoriented (in the Pan-Arabist irrelevance), and confused as regards its real and diachronic – Kushitic, African – identity. Nation-building process had been interrupted in Egypt long before the inception of Modern Somalia (1960).

If we examine other countries as case studies as regards the colonial effort to interrupt and avert the nation building process, we realize fat that there is practically speaking no other country except Somalia that could easily achieve National Historical Conscience and completion of the nation-building process.

Sudan is the territory of many different nations; this destroys the chance for successful nation-building process. In fact, Sudan must be broken to at least 6 countries. An independent Nubia or Beja Republic would have greater success in the nation-building process. The same is valid for Abyssinia (fallaciously re-baptized ´Ethiopia´), a realm that must be broken to 15 countries.

NW Africa could be another African place of great nation-building process as they are all Berbers, having a magnificent past intermingled with the Carthaginians. However, divided into 5 countries (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), confused with the overdose of fallacious Arabism (promoted by the nefarious French socialists), and engulfed in fratricidal rivalry, they have no chance – for the time being.

Mali and Ghana are two other cases whereby a nation-building process could be undertaken; again, the political and social divisions are the major hindrance.

Somalia may be divided into many tribes but all of them speak the same language, believe the same religion, share the same culture, and have the same long and outstanding past. This situation is different than what happens in Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Congo and South Africa.

A successful Nation Somalia, with National Historical Conscience would be the catalyst for Africa´s real emancipation, and a real nemesis for the colonial interests. The English knew that the Somalis could set up the first successful African Nation; since the early days of the Somali Independence, they tried to divert Somalia from the introduction of a National Awareness educational system, and to instigate in the minds of the Somali political establishment the idea of a war for the liberation of Ogaden. Although there is no doubt about Ogaden´s rightful position within a Greater Somalia, for the newly independent state, the education and the historical identity were more urgent choices; if well cultivated, they would make of Somalia a new powerful African nation.

This effort would never lead to any failure; this effort can still be undertaken by today´s Somalis. It would help them overcome the current troubles and difficulties, and establish an African prototype state. With many engaged in the effort, an outstanding result would come soon. What it takes to go through a nation-building process, establish a National Awareness educational system, and achieve a Somali National Historical Conscience we will discuss in a forthcoming article.